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You're missing the point entirely, and it has nothing to do with public transit. Although smaller overall, do you not think that Germany has rural areas? They do, lots of them.

Just by virtue of the fact that you live in the middle of nowhere, should not give you the right to pilot a several ton metal box going 100+kph that has the ability to kill you and those around you.

Driving should still be seen as a privilege and something that you have to earn, not just "oh, you live in the countryside.. well, do as you please"

Yes, but those 6 weeks are just your government sanctioned vacation. There's nothing stopping you from taking more time for yourself.

We get 5 weeks where I am, but I still make it a point to take at least 2 months off.

I would pose the question of why you need a one-size-fits-all creature.

Your statement completely ignores evolution and the human body's ability to adapt to its environment.

Sure, the timelines for such adaptations to develop are totally unknowable at this point, but you should never say never, especially with the progress being made in the field of genetics.

From your previous comment complaining about HN:

"The internet doesn't need another reddit, it's bad enough as it is."

Yet you insist on making comments that only belong on reddit. Can I convince you to delete your account?

Translation: "Society at large has no value, it is up to the strong to take from the many and cull the weak."

Personally, I like to think the culture here is above jumping to conclusions and armchair speculation.

>"I wonder what the appeal process is here."

Am I the only one that thinks this ruling makes sense?

When you set up android for the first time it gives you some text explaining what this is and how it works, and asks you whether you want to enable/disable it.

I'm not sure if this was ever a "default", but it is definitely part of the setup prompts now.

During the Android setup process it asks you if you want to enable this feature and has a side note that these scans are specifically to save battery life because they take much less energy than typical location services.

>"To paint this in starkly generational terms seems counterproductive."

.. which you proceed to do in the next sentence.

>"They will affect different age groups differently, but to pretend that it is somehow due to the "Generation" they are in is ridiculous."

I don't know if you're going out of your way to contradict yourself, but for all intents and purposes "generations" and "age groups" are the same thing.

Dr. McGonigal is on the right track, but she's missing the bigger picture.

She needs to realize that stress is not just one big thing and that there are many different types of stress.

Here we can see a difference between physical stress, and mental stress.

Physical stress being the stress that the body puts on itself to be able to perform a task to it's best ability when it's required. Whether that be writing your name, or pulling yourself up from the edge of a cliff.

Then there's mental stress which works on your body's ability to perform cognitive tasks.

When you are worried or anxious about something, it creates a sense of resistance in the body and mind. When you are more accepting of the stress or the feeling, you are able to free yourself from that resistance and all of the mental work that goes into the resistance, which allows your mind to have more capacity to focus.

The physical stress remains because your body is still pushing itself to perform a task under pressure.

Put all of this together, and you get the same result, except it makes much more sense to not think about stress as just one single thing.

Although we're not quite there yet, this is an interesting thought, and well within our technological grasp.

I think the one thing missing from moving this analysis forward is reliably tracking heart attacks.

You'd have to rely on the user to signal that they had a heart attack, so that data analysis could be done leading up to the events. This requires effort by someone that just had a heart attack (not always easy).

Then you also have to trust that your user data is accurate and that your users aren't trying to fake heart attacks by messing with their devices.

I'm still hopeful that these problems will be worked around.

I hope this has a big impact on Uber even outside of Kansas.

I think any customer would prefer background checks for drivers. Being defiant against them is just bad PR.

Background checks cost $20, or if you go through a channeler because you want your results in a couple days, you can pay $50.. This is a tiny price to pay for the safety of thousands of passengers, not to mention it wouldn't cost them anything, as they could defer the cost to the drivers as a part of the application process.

Trying to skimp out on insurance also goes further to show a wanton disregard for passenger safety.

Nothing in your quote suggests blacks are ugly.

It does suggest they will work for less money, and if you're looking at demographics, blacks actually do tend to make less than whites in many places.

You can easily debate the merits of that, but I don't think you can draw a straight line between price and beauty here, as there could be many other factors at work, such as basic economics (supply and demand). i.e. - there could be a supply of 200 black people and 2 white people, making the whites more valuable simply because they are scarce.

I mean I agree with you, but I don't think you can directly jump to those conclusions based on this.

If the building is commercially zoned, doing this would technically be illegal.

So if they found out this was a factor in something they would normally pay out for, you can be sure they wouldn't.

I think this is an easy problem to fix, no?

Why not just make the keys responsible for starting the car again?

We've traded too much security for convenience and it's time to take a step back.

You can still start the car with the push of a button.. only now that button is on the key.

Problem solved.

"The only documented risk of water fluoridation is fluorosis, and it is primarily a cosmetic risk," says Barbara Gooch

Well technically we know that the pineal gland absorbs fluoride more readily than any other part of the body.. but we don't yet know the total consequences of messing with this crucial part of our endocrine system.

I'd much rather see this program discontinued than to err on the side of ignorance.

Surely you realize that this is cultural.

In my country there is very little crime, and the police very much only exist to serve the population and they are always trying to help.

Common sense here is that it would be foolish to think that the police are not trying to help, and I am very glad that the US's relation with the police is not an entirely global problem.

Fabric has been a term used in networking for at least 20 years.

It's almost like every notable april fool's joke in history.

There's always the guys that will say that lighting a bunch of tires on top of a mountain to fake a volcano eruption was irresponsible, but then again, these are the things we talk about decades later.

Any business can look into https traffic, and if you don't have that ability, then you either don't care about half your traffic, or you don't know what you're doing/have the proper tools.

Allowing anyone on your network (or your destination's network) to inject whatever they want into your datastream is not an acceptable tradeoff for "I want my job to be easier"

A device that costs money, that you have to carry with you at all times, that you have to have connected to the internet, and you're likely to never use... I get your goal, but I don't think it's practical in the way you're thinking.

There are phone apps which do some of what your suggesting, but leaving them on all the time would mean that you would have to have an unlimited data package and lots of spare batteries.

Considering they have the plaintext passwords and that Uber can't identify a breach, it's most likely people who re-use the same password and were a victim of another hack (adobe et al.)

Isn't anyone else curious about this "long now foundation"?

I mean for one thing the bet is just as much about the turing test as it is whether or not you believe this foundation is going to exist in 2029.

It also seems like they take all the bet money and then invest it while they're waiting to pay out. Seems like a pretty sweet deal.

I think this is from an old newsgroup post, if i'm not mistaken.

Good old one-factor authentication.

The huge problem with this (and I hate even saying this out loud) is stealing phone numbers.

If I really wanted to hack your account, I would just port your phone number. I won't give the details how, but let's just say it's not yet a perfect system.

The number would get ported elsewhere, your phone company would probably assign you a new number (or your phone stops working until you call them).. the attacker would login, do whatever, and then in the next day or two when you realize your phone has a different phone number.. it would be way too late.

You'd likely even have a very difficult time getting your account back, since you no longer have your phone number.

Not only that, but now your entire life is messed up slightly because nobody knows your phone number.

We haven't seen too much of this yet, but I expect that to change. Thanks yahoo.

I don't think they care so much about people finding it, as they do all of the people who will try to build their own businesses around the API and then try to sue when the API changes.

There was a study done a couple of years back that showed that stored blood started to become less effective after about 21 days.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/11/the-shelf-life-of-d...

They may not store messages within the Whatsapp system, but facebook is a data mining company first and foremost and an advertising company second.

I think it would be short-sighted to assume they aren't storing your messages somewhere.